352 CONVOLVULACEAE. 



the tube usually nearly white, the limb light blue or purple; capsule depressed- 

 globose, 3-valved, about as long as the lanceolate portion of the sepals. 



Roadsides, New 1'iovidence at Nassau: continental tropical America. Natural- 

 ized in the eastern United States. Ivy-leaved Mobuing-gloet. 



2. Ipomoea villosa R. & P. Fl. Per. 2: 12. 1799. 



Pubescent, twining. Leaves thin, slender-petioled, the blades 7-15 cm. 

 long, pubescent on both sides, entire or 3-lobed, long-acuminate at the apex, 

 deeply cordate at the base; peduncles 1-4-flowered, axillary, as long as the 

 petioles or shorter; bracts linear-lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 cm. long; sepals lanceolate, 

 acuminate, pubescent, about 2.5 cm. long; corolla purple, about 7.5 cm. long. 



Sea-beach, Andros, along road to Little Creek : Bermuda ; Trinidad ; northern 

 South America : Old World tropics. Included in this flora with doubt, the specimen 

 showing foliage only. Villous Morning-glory. 



3. Ipomoea cathartica Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 4: 633. 1816. 



Pharbitis cathartica Ohoisy, in DC. Prodr. 9: 342. 1845. 



Perennial, minutely strigillose or glabrate. Stems more or less twining, 

 branching. Leaves broadly ovate, 5-9 cm. long, entire or 3-lobed, acuminate, 

 cordate; peduncles shorter than the subtending petioles; sepals glabrate, 

 linear-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 1-2 cm. long, acuminate; corolla pink- 

 purple or crimson, the limb 6-8 cm. broad, undulate; capsules spheroidal, about 

 1 cm. broad; seeds glabrous, about 3 mm. in diameter. 



Scrub-lands, Abaco, Great Bahama, Biminis, Andros, New Providence, Eleu- 

 thera, Long Island, Crooked Island and Anguilla Isles : Bermuda ; Florida ; through- 

 out the West Indies and continental tropical America. The record of J. purpurea 

 Lam., by Dolley, for the Bahamas, probably refers to this species, which was entered 

 in Mrs. Northrop's List, in part, as /. jamaicensis Don. Referred by Mrs. Northrop 

 to I. commutata R. & S., and also so referred by Hitchcock. Purple Morning-glory. 

 Glory-morning. 



; 4. Ipomoea Pes-caprae (L.) Roth, Nov. Sp. 109. 1821. 



Convolvulus Pes-caprae L. Sp. PI. 159. 1753. 

 Convolvulus brasiliensis L. Sp. PL 159. 1753. 



Perennial, glabrous, succulent. Stems prostrate, creeping, sometimes 20 m. 

 long or more, branching; leaves suborbicular, 6-10 cm. broad, usually notched 

 at the apex, rounded or cordate at the base; petioles as long as the blades or 

 shorter ; peduncles stout, 1-several-flowered ; pedicels more slender than the 

 peduncles; sepals glabrous, oval or suborbicular, about 1 cm. long, obtuse; 

 corolla purple, 4-5 cm. long, its tube broadly funnelform, its limb undulately- 

 lobed, 5-8 cm. broad; capsules broadly ovoid or globose-ovoid, 1.5 cm. high; 

 seeds pubescent. 



Sea-beaches and coastal rocks, throughout the archipelago from Anaco and 

 Great Bahama to Watling's Island, Inagua, Anguilla Isles and Elbow Cay : Ber- 

 muda-: Georgia and Florida; coasts of the West Indies; continental tropical America 

 and Old World tropics. Bay Hops. Bay Winders. 



fc 5. Ipomoea stolonifera (Cyrill.) Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 6: 20. 1804. 



Convolvulus Uttoralis L. Syst. ed. 10, 924. 1759. Not Ipomoea littoralis 



Blume. 1826. 

 Ipomoea Uttoralis Boiss. Fl. Orient. 4: 112. 1879. 



Stem slender, buried in sand, sending up branches which rise 0.5-2 dm. 

 above the surface, glabrous and fleshy. Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, or 

 broader, long-petioled, fleshy, glabrous, 3-7 em. long, entire or variously lobed, 

 narrowed at the base or the later ones rounded or cordate; flowers few or 

 solitary; peduncles mostly shorter than the leaves; sepals oval or oblong, 10-15 

 mm. long, mucronate; corolla white, funnelform-campanulate, 45 cm. long; 

 capsules globose, 1-1.5 cm. long; seeds smooth. 



